no kidding - don't know why they couldn't just be happy making money behind the scenes. if the keynote (check the link I posted) is any indication, they'll be crawling back into the woodwork soon enough

"Hover Hand" -- socially insecure men at conventions who are photographed with attractive booth models, and are too afraid to actually touch the women, so their hands "hover" right next to the women. Yes, guys, women are laughing at you.

Intellect Motion shows off its GameCube on Wednesday, January 9. The system allows players to control a game using sensors that detect gravitational effects on the human body. For example, in the picture shown, the sensors have detected that gravity is pulling the player downwards. Developers say that as soon as someone invents anti-gravity, their system will really take off.

StopLurkListen:"Hover Hand" -- socially insecure men at conventions who are photographed with attractive booth models, and are too afraid to actually touch the women, so their hands "hover" right next to the women. Yes, guys, women are laughing at you.

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I admit if the girls have their bodies exposed like these girls I hover but mostly I don't put my hands around them at all. I would think they would appreciate me not putting my meat hooks on their silky smooth flesh. I guess I'm being laughed at. Very well, next time I shall eat me some ribs dripping in BBQ sauce and not use a wet nap before I get pics with booth babes. I'll be dammed if I'm laughed at again!

/...if they are not exposing flesh I will touch the woman when I put my arm around them..

wildstarr:StopLurkListen: "Hover Hand" -- socially insecure men at conventions who are photographed with attractive booth models, and are too afraid to actually touch the women, so their hands "hover" right next to the women. Yes, guys, women are laughing at you.

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I admit if the girls have their bodies exposed like these girls I hover but mostly I don't put my hands around them at all. I would think they would appreciate me not putting my meat hooks on their silky smooth flesh. I guess I'm being laughed at. Very well, next time I shall eat me some ribs dripping in BBQ sauce and not use a wet nap before I get pics with booth babes. I'll be dammed if I'm laughed at again!/...if they are not exposing flesh I will touch the woman when I put my arm around them..

Haha, great slideshow - just as crappy as the ones I used to put together for the tech trade rag I wrote for. Random products with little explanation. CES sucks so bad. Everyone should go once and then try to never end up there again.

wildstarr:StopLurkListen: "Hover Hand" -- socially insecure men at conventions who are photographed with attractive booth models, and are too afraid to actually touch the women, so their hands "hover" right next to the women. Yes, guys, women are laughing at you.

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I admit if the girls have their bodies exposed like these girls I hover but mostly I don't put my hands around them at all. I would think they would appreciate me not putting my meat hooks on their silky smooth flesh. I guess I'm being laughed at. Very well, next time I shall eat me some ribs dripping in BBQ sauce and not use a wet nap before I get pics with booth babes. I'll be dammed if I'm laughed at again!

/...if they are not exposing flesh I will touch the woman when I put my arm around them..

The mockery comes from your needing the ego boost by being photographed with professional models who are required to be there.

StopLurkListen:The mockery comes from your needing the ego boost by being photographed with professional models who are required to be there.

LOL! I don't get an ego boost from that at all. I am more than intelligent enough to realize they are being paid to be there. If anything it LOWERS my ego cause the only way for me to get a pic with a hot babe I gotta go to a convention. The only way to get an ego boost is if one asked if she could go home with me.

sasbazooka:If this is the best CES has to offer this year, the show has really gone downhill...

That was pretty much what I was thinking. Half this stuff isn't even electronics so it doesn't belong at an electronics show no matter how new or nice it is. That may be the worlds best flashlight (it better be for 500 bucks) but it is still a flashlight, not a piece of electronics.

The waterproof coating may be advertised for use on electronics but that doesn't mean it is electronic. You don't show up at an auto show to introduce your snack foods that can be put in a cup holder so why is everybody showing off all kinds of junk that isn't electronics at CES?

Cell phone cases with pictures of dogs? 3 different sets of headphones being featured? Headphones are purely electrical devices. The same goes for the ugly speaker system. I'm pretty sure that if that massage chair has ANY electronics it is in the controller for that and that is probably just for a shutoff timer.

The subwoofer for your chair still isn't electronic nor is it even a remotely new idea. People didn't buy them in years gone by when they were under 100 or when they came built into 200 and 300 dollar chairs so I can promise you this one will flop at 350 dollars.

Pretty much the only new things I see in the list are a window cleaning robot, the GSR controlled helicopter toy, and the electric skates that even Wiley Coyote would take a pass on.

I can't even call the computer for restaurant tables new because even bloody microsoft built computers like that and they were far from the first. What you essentially have is an 80s arcade machine with Wi-fi and a menu added and all the fun removed.